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words.For complete contents,
please refer to the tapes.

TAPE/#

Speaker

Comments

TAPE 63, A

005

Chair Hill

Calls the meeting to order
at 10:05 am and opens a work session on SB 479A.

SB 479A – Work Session

007

Mark Jolley

Committee
Administrator.Gives overview of the
bill

024

Tom O’Connor

Oregon Municipal
Utilities.Says they do not support
the –7 amendments.

039

Olive Henry

Olympia Water board
Details reasons she does not support the –7 amendments. Adds the definitions
do not correspond with the Federal definitions.

064

Rep. Patridge

Points out that a
three-year cost projection is the base line, that it can be longer.

075

Chair Hill

Invites others to come
speak.Notes that AT&T is not
present.

077

Ginny Lang

Lobbyist representing
QWEST.Explains the amendments she
has proposed and the two primary changes they would make to Sec. 105.

103

Mike Dewey

Oregon Cable
Telecommunications Association. Says he want to talk about HB 2680. Says it
almost no longer exists.

210

Dewey

Continues testimony.

228

Dave Barenberg

League of Oregon
Cities.Speaks to the QWEST
amendments.Indicates cities have
serious problems with it.Refers to
the 4% franchise fees.

273

Chair Hill

Clarifies rates and PUC
authority in determining basic rates.

294

Barenberg

Concurs and points out
other changes.

329

Beth Vergis-Duncan

Franchise Coordinator for
the City of Salem. Presents her position.

354

Chair Hill

Responds to her comments
on the franchise fees.

425

Barenberg

Makes additional comments
related to the franchise issue.

435

Susan Schneider

Lobbyist, City of
Portland. Says their pledge to come back next session is not a delaying
technique against change, instead the issues is just so complex they want to
give it appropriate attention.

TAPE 64A

032

Bill Penhollow

Lobbyist, Association of
Oregon Counties. Says they did not receive the –8 amendments, but can comment
on the –5, which has elements of HB 2280.

059

Steve McClure

Commissioner in an eastern
Oregon community. Says he will talk about delivering telecommunications and
the necessary infrastructure from the rural Oregon perspective.

075

Rep. Patridge

Asks why they are opposed
to the –5and –7.

085

Penhollow

Responds.

100

Rep. Patridge

Says that Mr. Penhollow
still has not answered the question he raised. Asks can you state for the
record, how this takes that tool away.

115

Penhollow

Responds he spoke from his
understanding of Mr. Dewey’s testimony, and, if he misunderstands, sorry.

123

Rep. Patridge

Pursues clarifying their
point.

127

McClure

Responds as an elected
official.

140

Rep. Lowe

Says she is trying to
envision an election of this type.

219

Rep. Patridge

Makes it clear that he is
reading this correctly and stresses that the AOC is objecting because it has
more public process, and they are objecting the public process part of it,
not because of what it would takes from them.

250

Penhollow

Responds that there would
be an additional expense to the public.

270

Rep. Patridge

Again stresses his view
that having public input and debate is important.For the record, he disagrees with them.

300

Chair Hill

Expresses his agreement
with Rep. Patridge comments.

350

Penhollow

Responds.

449

Kathy Scapp

Former Mayor of Ashland,
Oregon.Says she oversaw the Ashland
FiberNetwork. Says she has heard many misrepresentations in the past several
months.

Tape 62, B

100

Scapp

Continues testimony.

140

Chair Hill

Says he does not agree
with her.

145

Scapp

Clarifies her point that
those with money win, and continues her testimony.

187

Rep. Patridge

Asks, given the
controversy around the Ashland FiberNetwork, why didn’t people come out to
meet and show their disagreement.